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See Also:

• past participle of access.
• past tense form of access.

accessed

American  

[ak-sest] / ˈæk sɛst /

adjective

1. reached, contacted, entered, or visited.

   Lot 14 on Smoke Road is an easily accessed lot with great views, grass, and scattered trees.

   Your bibliography should include the URL of the accessed website.

2. obtained or made use of.

   She founded and ran one of the most accessed family counseling programs in the state.

3. Computers. (of data) retrieved for use by another program or application or for transfer from one part of a system to another.

   Data caching is a way of storing the most frequently accessed data in memory so it doesn’t need to be regenerated each time.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of access.

Other Word Forms

• unaccessed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of accessed

First recorded in 1870–75; access ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; access ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

To make the information more widely available, the team has uploaded the 3D models to the online repository MorphoSource, where they can be freely accessed.

From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026

On the upside, Starlink can be accessed while you’re on a plane or on a boat on the high seas.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Hackers from a well-known cyber criminal group have accessed a "significant amount" of personal student data held by the University of Nottingham.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

As for the website you accessed, it can only see the VPN server’s IP address, so it cannot uniquely identify you.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

The process was akin to a library of rare books that is accessed for translation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee